Apprentice Building Surveyor

The Apprentice Building Surveyor

The Apprentice Building Surveyor will support the building surveying team in delivering professional services across a range of property types. The role combines practical, hands-on site experience with academic study, enabling the apprentice to develop the technical, and interpersonal skills to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS).

What you'll do at work

• Site Inspections: Assist with site visits to inspect buildings for defects, damages, and identify repairs
• Report Writing: Assist in preparing written reports, including building surveys, condition surveys, and planned maintenance schedules.
• Contract Administration: Assist in managing construction/repair contracts, including preparing specifications, drawings, and tender documents.
• Project Management: Support project managers in monitoring building work, calculating costs, and ensuring quality assurance.
• Client Liaison: Liaise with clients, tenants, contractors, and other professionals, building professional relationships.
• Asset Management: Update records on asset management systems relating to compliance (e.g., asbestos, fire safety) and maintenance.
• Professional Development: Attend university (day release) and complete coursework to achieve the required professional qualification.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Information management: Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
• Health and safety: Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
• Construction technology: Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
• Law: Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
• Consultancy: Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
• Building surveys: Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
• Prepare designs and specifications: Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
• Administer contracts: Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
• Valuation and appraisal: Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
• Land, property and planning law: Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
• Inspection and measurement: Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
• Tendering and procurement: Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
• Costing and cost planning of construction works: Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
• Manage efficiencies of construction contracts: Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
• Information management: Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
• Health and safety: Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
• Construction technology: Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
• Law: Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
• Consultancy: Manage instructions from engagement to completion.